I attended a Medical Library Association-sponsored webcast last week, "Cutting the Cord: connecting to our Mobile Users". It was about providing electronic content to users via their mobile devices such as iPhones, PDAs and other handhelds. One thing I was surprised to learn was that people are actually reading books on devices with little bitty screens such as iPhones and iPod Touchs. I can understand Kindles and Netbooks, but iPhones?
Just to prove how ridiculous the idea was I went to the iPhone app store and installed both Amazon's Kindle and Lexcycle's Stanza (both free apps) and downloaded a book (free, of course) from each to see how I liked it. Surprise...I liked it! I don't particularly like reading on my desktop monitor, but this is different, and I'm not sure why. Now I can read books on my iPhone while I'm on Muni trying to ignore the shootings and muggings. Just have to remember not to read while driving. Someone might video me and put it on YouTube.
